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Following the publication of the summary of the US Senate Intelligence Committee Study, authorities can no longer hide, deny or downplay the torture of detainees carried out by the CIA in various locations worldwide after 2001. The use of torture in interrogations was carefully planned, developed and executed. It involved many administrative levels–from presidential orders and legal department memos to approvals from state secretaries and agency directors–as well as the armed forces. Far from being the twisted work of a small number of individuals in a special operation, torture represented an official policy of the Bush administration.
The torture is well documented: waterboarding, sleep deprivation, isolation and sensory deprivation, religious, sexual and moral humiliation, stress positions, environmental manipulation, beatings, and more. Also revealed were the names of those who drafted and approved the memoranda on torture as well the names of those who opposed them. Those who objected to the policy at an early stage now have an important role to play as witnesses to the development of the torture program.
